Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was swiftly killed by Democrats last year.
The bill, which passed on a 35-27 vote, is now on its way to the Democratic-led state Senate. If it passes there, it could bring Colorado in line with 10 other states — including California, New York and Illinois — that have prohibitions on semiautomatic guns.
But even in a state plagued by some of the nation’s worst mass shootings, such legislation faces headwinds.
Colorado’s political history is purple, shifting blue only recently. The bill’s chances of success in the state Senate are lower than they were in the House, where Democrats have a 46-19 majority and a bigger far-left flank. Gov. Jared Polis, also a Democrat, has indicated his wariness over such a ban.
If things get to an actual civil war where tyrannical government is willing to use its resources, i think you are severely underestimating the resources. The satellite and drone intel, the ability to destroy routes civilian vehicles can take, the aerial strikes. Civilians arent gonna get together no matter the heads they can put together and build competing anti air capabilities. Its not like a battle of damage numbers in a game, its ability to even play the games that they can. Like a well armored knight fighting against squirrels, the numbers dont matter, the little claws cant get through steel.
Thats all you can hope for, thats the only way civilians in any developed country survives:having a government that doesnt want to kill them. Armed population or not, it really has no effect.
Yeah dude. I don’t think anyone who hasn’t either called in a CAS 9 line, or fought without FW/RW CAS cover really understands the meteoric shift in battlespace domination it brings. Oh cool, you saw some Telegram vids of drones dropping frags on Russians in Ukraine? Good luck doing anything with that when the 2.4Ghz signal used to control your DJI is jammed, an AWACS picks up your wireless emissions and sends your coordinates to a JTAC who confirms your position with his own drone communicating on encrypted channel hopping frequencies that you can’t jam, paints you with a laser your can’t see, then calls in a CAS 9 line on you and you’re getting fucking perforated by a chain gun and some hellfires or just instantly deleted when a FW pastes you with some guided ordinance from somewhere beyond the horizon.
Yup, that’s the unfortunate truth of it.
Air strikes on your own populace? That’s a way to build friends.
The whole premise theyre defending is we should have guns to defend against the US government. If the US government actually wanted to kill them, thats what they would be facing.
It totally worked in Vietnam and Afghanistan. The militant forces were completely pacified.